Azure BizTalk Services, which is used by organizations to bridge hybrid connections between the Internet and on-premises business applications, will be "retired on May 31, 2018," Microsoft said in a post this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 02, 2017
Microsoft on Wednesday released a technical preview of a new disaster recovery feature for its Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service, enabling customers to restore virtual machines (VMs) running on the Azure IaaS platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 31, 2017
As the European Union prepares to enforce its recently updated data privacy laws, Microsoft and other providers are retrofitting their services to ensure their customers are compliant with the new regulations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management service is getting two new features, now in preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2017
Microsoft is significantly extending the reach of its cloud-based services by building new datacenters in South Africa, the company announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 22, 2017
VMware this week announced a partnership with Microsoft that would enable VMware's Horizon Cloud Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) infrastructure to be delivered on the Azure public cloud.
- By Keith Ward
- May 18, 2017
Despite maintaining its healthy lead in the cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon Web Services is facing increasingly strong competition from Microsoft Azure.
- By David Ramel
- May 17, 2017
The Azure AD Admin Console, an addition to the Azure Portal, is now generally available (GA) after being in preview since September, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2017
Azure Active Directory Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Microsoft's customer-facing identity and access management service that launched last July, has a few new perks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 15, 2017
Microsoft kicked off its 2017 Build developer conference on Wednesday in Seattle, Wash., announcing new offerings related to Azure, Cognitive Services, Visual Studio and more.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 10, 2017
Exactly two years after Microsoft first unveiled Azure Stack, Dell EMC on Thursday announced the first generation of its solution based on the forthcoming private cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 04, 2017
Microsoft recently turned the spotlight on some high-profile customers that are using its latest cloud, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions as part of what it calls "digital transformation" initiatives.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 28, 2017
Microsoft's third-quarter financial report on Thursday was a mixed bag, with sliding hardware sales being offset by a strong showing from the company's cloud business.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 27, 2017
In a bid to make Internet of Things (IoT) technologies more accessible to novices, Microsoft is readying a new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering dubbed Microsoft IoT Central.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 24, 2017
A surprising percentage of organizations running hybrid cloud environments are unaware of it, according to a recent Microsoft survey.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 21, 2017
As the current cloud field stands, leader Amazon Web Services may be ceding some market share to Azure and Google, but the challengers still have a lot of ground to make up.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 19, 2017
Microsoft this week put the spotlight on some resources for organizations that are looking to take a hybrid approach with their Azure deployments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Business-to-Business (B2B) service, which is typically used by organizations working with partners or other external parties needing resource access, became generally available on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 13, 2017
Microsoft's Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync) and Azure AD Sync tools are set to lose support on Thursday, the company warned this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2017
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has acquired Deis, a startup that provides training and tools related to Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system devised by Google.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2017